#election1896

“...As his last act as Mayor, Feducci had the mayoral residence exploded.”

Election Returns to Fallen London

Election is a free festival open to all players. Starting Monday 18th June, players will have two weeks to bolster support for a candidate of their choosing.

The 1896 Election will see some slight structural changes in accordance with Mr Huffam's Second Revised Rules of Electioneering:

The candidates running will be announced at the beginning of the festival on the 18th of June

The first week of Election will focus on learning about the candidates and leveling up your political career through Reputation

Reputation will be gained through the main Election opportunity card. Trade items, Favours, and take part in particular political activities to gain Reputation in your chosen career

Certain Favours will correspond to different political careers (these will be announced when Election begins)

During week two, you'll be able to cast your vote (your progress for both weeks will count towards your vote), continue to advance your career to support your candidate, and even change your vote or career if someone else has won you over

We’ll also be polling people throughout Election and releasing the results via the main Election card. Much more information will be revealed once the festival begins. We look forward to seeing who you’ll choose, delicious friends.

The Captivating Princess: Bees.

Me: Bees?

The Captivating Princess: Bees!

Hello to all! In the wake of the recent 1896 mayoral election, we have seen the power of Huffam and his team of underpaid pollsters to gauge the attitudes of Fallen London's citizens toward various candidates. In a few weeks, we should be seeing some official statistics from Failbetter Games on the breakdown of voters's preferred candidates and roles during the election as we have for the past two years. There is also an unofficial survey floating around made by and for the community for similar purposes. As a whole, there have been many polls and surveys going around.

So here's another one!

This survey was created in response to questions over past candidates and why the FL playerbase, as a whole, voted for certain candidates and not others. While other surveys do a good job of informing us of how the community tended to vote statistically, they do not really inform us of *why* players voted as they did. How many voted for in-character reasons, versus out-of-character reasons? How many voted based on platform, and how many voted based on name recognition? Did the influence of new players shift the demographics of the voting population and thus change how candidates with similar platforms were received? The percentage of people who voted for the Jovial Contrarian versus the Captivating Princess or Mr. Slowcake alone could not help us with these questions. Thus...

An entirely unofficial and voluntary Fallen London Post-Election Survey, via Google Forms. 

This survey asks participants to disclose the candidates they voted for during the 1894, 1895, and/or 1896 Fallen London mayoral election events, but also asks their reasons for both choosing their preferred candidates and not choosing dis-preferred candidates. My hope is that with this we can start to identify common themes and reasons for voting or not-voting specific candidates among the greater FL community, rather than scouring across a series of discord servers, forum, tumblr archives, and more. Note that your responses to freeform questions will be made available to others who have taken survey, and that all responses are otherwise anonymous in terms of identification. This survey is in no way affiliated with or sponsored by Failbetter Games